Daniel S. Weld
| Daniel Sabey Weld | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 13, 1960 Boston, Massachusetts |
| Nationality | United States |
| Fields | Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence |
| Institutions | University of Washington |
| Alma mater | MIT Yale University 1982[1] |
| Doctoral advisor | Tomás Lozano-Pérez[2] |
| Doctoral students | J. Scott Penberthy, Franz Amador, Anthony Barrett, Keith Golden, Nick Kushmerick, Marc Friedman, Tessa Lau, Zachary Ives, Corin Anderson, Mausam, Krzysztof Gajos[2] |
| Known for | automated planning and scheduling, software agents[3] |
Daniel S. Weld is the Thomas J. Cable/WRF Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, where he does research in automated planning and scheduling, software agents, and Internet information extraction.[4]
Weld was born in 1960 in Boston. He attended high school at Phillips Academy, earned bachelor's degrees in Computer Science and Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry (1982) from Yale University, and a master's degree (1984) and PhD (1988) in Computer Science from MIT.[1][5] He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery[6] and Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.[3]
Weld co-founded Netbot Incorporated (1996), which was acquired by Excite; AdRelevance (1998), which was acquired by Media Metrix and then by Nielsen NetRatings; and Nimble Technology (1999), which was acquired by Actuate.[5]
[edit] References
- ^ a b "Daniel S. Weld". http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/lazowska/selfstudy/cvs/weld.pdf. Retrieved 2008-11-12.
- ^ a b "The Mathematics Genealogy Project". http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=71766. Retrieved 2008-11-12.
- ^ a b "Elected AAAI Fellows". http://www.aaai.org/Awards/fellows-list.php. Retrieved 2008-11-12.
- ^ Daniel S. Weld (2008-11-11). "Intelligence in Wikipedia". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqOHbihYbhE. Retrieved 7-3-2009.
- ^ a b "Daniel S. Weld". http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/weld/. Retrieved 2008-11-12.
- ^ "ACM: Fellows Award/Daniel S Weld". http://fellows.acm.org/fellow_citation.cfm?id=3459088&srt=alpha&alpha=W. Retrieved 2008-11-12.
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